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History. The firm's origin dates back to 1947, when investor Jack Dreyfus founded a brokerage house in New York City named Dreyfus & Co. In 1951, attracted by the concept of mutual funds, Dreyfus & Co. purchased a small management company named John G. Nesbett & Co., Inc. with a small common stock fund called The Nesbett Fund Incorporated.
According to Barron's Magazine end of Century issue, Jack Dreyfus was considered the 2nd most significant money manager of the last century. Dreyfus married in 1939 Joan Personette, from whom he was divorced; they had one child, John (Jonny). His paternal grandfather was a first cousin of Alfred Dreyfus, the protagonist of the French 19th ...
Howard Mathew Stein (October 6, 1926 – July 26, 2011) [1] was an American financier who is widely considered one of the fathers of the mutual fund industry. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine on August 24, 1970. [2] Stein invented the first "no load" money market fund and created the first tax-free municipal bond fund.
Louis Dreyfus Company B.V. ( LDC) is a French merchant firm that is involved in agriculture, food processing, international shipping, and finance. The company owns and manages hedge funds, ocean vessels, develops and operates telecommunications infrastructures, and it is also involved in real estate development, management and ownership. [1]
Stanley Freeman Druckenmiller (born June 14, 1953) [1] is an American billionaire investor, philanthropist and former hedge fund manager. He is the former chairman and president of Duquesne Capital, which he founded in 1981. He closed the fund in August 2010, [2] at which time it had over $12 billion in assets.
Alfred Dreyfus ( French: [alfʁɛd dʁɛfys], German: [ˈalfʁeːt ˈdʁaɪfuːs]; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Alsatian origin and Jewish faith. In 1894, he fell victim to a judicial conspiracy that sparked a major political crisis during the Third Republic, known as the Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906), when he ...
Website. www.dreyfus.org. The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation is a New York City-based foundation founded in 1946 by chemist and investor Camille Dreyfus in honour of his brother, Henry Dreyfus. [2] The two men invented the acetate yarn Celanese, and Henry Dreyfus was founder and chairman of British Celanese, parent of the Celanese ...
Charlie Hall. (grandson) Gérard C. Louis-Dreyfus (21 June 1932 – 16 September 2016), also known as William, [1] was a French-American businessman. His net worth was estimated at $3.4 billion by Forbes in 2006. [2] He was the chairman of Louis Dreyfus Energy Services and the great grandson of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of Louis Dreyfus ...